Australian University heads of english

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AUHE Annual General Meeting

The Australian University Heads of English (AUHE) annual general meeting brings together conveners of English or literary/writing studies from universities across Australia to discuss issues of importance to the discipline, broadly defined. The 2017 AGM will be held on Friday 1st December 2017, 9.00am – 4.30pm.

The Australian Universities Heads of English (AUHE) is calling for nominations for the inaugural AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, which will be awarded to the best book of literary scholarship published by an Australian-based author in the last twelve months.Works eligible for the prize include single-author or co-written monographs, multi-authored books including edited collections, reference works, born-digital works equivalent to printed books, bibliographic works of substance and other forms of equivalent scholarly production. All forms of literary scholarship are acceptable, including critical, theoretical, empirical, historical, textual and so on. Interdisciplinary scholarship is not precluded though a work must engage with what is understood as books and writing in whatever form.Nominated books need to have been published between July 2016 and July 2017.The prize is decided by a panel of members nominated by the AUHE executive. The winner will be announced at the time of the AUHE AGM, usually in late November or early December.Please forward all nominations to the Chair of the judging panel, Associate Professor Guy Davidson (guy@uow.edu.au) by 5pm, 30 July 2017. Nominators should supply or ensure access to three copies of the nominated text. Either hard or electronic copies are acceptable, with electronic copies preferred. Authors may self-nominate. If nominating a book you have not authored, please contact the author of the text you are nominating to avoid duplicate entries. Publishers may also nominate books.For any queries, please email the Chair of the judging panel

2018 Literary Studies Convention

July 4-7, 2018
Australian National University, CanberraThe Australian National University (ANU) is proud to host the 2018 Literary Studies Convention. The convention will be held on the ANU campus in Canberra between Wednesday, July 4 and Saturday, July 7.